#charade meowscarada

[ask-meowscarada]

Fenne: "Woa! Your markings changed when you used that water type move, did something happen when you did it?"

(From @askfenne !!)

( Context 1, 2)

(( Here's a bit of trivia about Charade's type changes!

For those who don't know, Meowscarada's flower when in bloom bears resemblance to a pomegranate, which you can read more about on Bulbapedia. The meaning behind the flower in the base design is what inspired me to have her flower change based on her type!

As a Water-type, her flower is based on a white water lily. The bulb is replaced by a lily pad. The idea to change her cape (for all forms, but especially this one) was inspired by these Meowscarada variants by mykocalico!

As a Fairy-type, her flower is based on a pink shrub rose. While I can't find an exact name for the species, these roses are called "The Fairy" by some gardeners (it's also a plant in Stardew Valley). I think the design for the bulb was based on a generic flower bulb, but I can't remember (I'll update this post if I figure it out)!

As a Dark-type, her flower is based on the genus datura, one of several plants commonly known as moonflowers. Not only does this beautiful flower bloom at night, but their poisonous properties have led them to be commonly associated with witchcraft! The bulb is based on the datura's seed pod.

If Charade becomes a pure Grass-type through her ability, her appearance is the same as her default. (Don't fix what ain't broke, right?)

I've always loved the idea of weird type changes, like with Delta species and Tera types, so I'm glad I get to play around with it in a milder form! Then there are, of course, the Hidden Types of this blog... Maybe some day I'll come up with more hypothetical Protean type changes for moves like Thunder Punch or Triple Axel. ))

[absolasks]

Charade and the team have received some tins of loose-leaf mint tea, a chunk of dusk stone ore and a hand-made scarf! Though, it seems the sender wishes to remain anonymous...

Happy Star Sending to @ask-meowscarada!! I absolutely loved all of your characters' lists and couldn't choose just one, so I tried my best to have Ari fulfil a wish from each of them! Reading through your blog from the start again to get to know the characters as well as I could was a really fun experience and I had an absolute blast drawing them all together - I can only hope I've done them justice!!!

[askdeoxys]

[ in reponse to ]

"THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HANG OUT THOUGH, YOU'RE REALLY NICE... ANYWAYS, I DON'T LIKE TALKING ABOUT ME. EVERYONE ASKS ME ABOUT ME. CAN WE TALK ABOUT YOU? THIS RIGHT HERE IS YOU, CHARADE. NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CHARADE. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHARADE? PLEASE, CHARADE, I'VE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT THE CHARADE WITH YOU ALL DAY, OKAY?"

@ask-meowscarada

[ask-sarah-and-co]

I know it’s thursday night but!! fanart friday!! (the lil art hiatus rlly motivated me ngl!!!)

Echo from @askshinyglaceon

Umbra from @askadelcatty

Charade from @ask-meowscarada

Harumi from @life-of-kalos

[askleaderscrest]

Clarent: Even with all of our strengths, there are no lack of dangers in the grove. We compete with others for territory and food. And when we compete, we don't always win...

Clarent: It won't be happening again.

[redolentgrove]

Charade @ Loki: "Loki, was it? You know, not everyone uses the term "hidden type" to describe it--does that mean you know what yours is? How do you use it? Wait--let me guess! Water type, to keep your leaves crisp! Or maybe Psychic, because you're really clever? Oooooh tell me tell me tell me!"

Loki grinned at the sight of her friend's arrival. Though she wasn't in a very verdant patch of the forest at the moment, the area smelled vaguely of lavender and other herbal scents. The moon peeked just over the horizon, the sky dark save for a couple of patches of light from different campfires in the surrounding forest glens. She dug her paws into the bare ground beneath her, waving the feline over to her.

"Well, you're a sight for sore eyes… Charade, wasn't it?" She nodded politely and reached a hand out to offer her that seat on her back if she were so inclined to take it. "Oh yeah, Hidden Power Types… right, I did talk about those, huh? I guess I forgot that the way I mentioned them was a bit poorly phrased. Yeah, I know mine - usually most Pokemon do, at least from my experience. Well, anyway, yeah, these "Hidden Types" are usually viewed as a sort of latent, inner power that gets brought out in the heat of battle, though, not always in the same way in every region."

"Well, anyway, here in Unova and a few other regions, we have Technical Machines that help you bring it out. I don't know if it's like this in your species' home region, though… I haven't been to… Paldea, I think it was? Anyway, a lot of the folks I knew from Galar said they didn't know what a hidden type even was! Can you believe it? A whole region of Pokemon with hidden types who have no idea of what their types are! And your guesses… first of all, thank you for complimenting me on your guesses… but you know what? Instead of telling you, I'll go ahead and show you!"

Loki went over to one of her storage chests, bringing back a long dogwood staff tipped with an amethyst crystal. With a chuckle, she began twirling it in her left hand. "I haven't used this thing since I was part-Delphox… that would've been, what, a few centuries ago? Like, right after I began transitioning…" She shrugged her shoulders in thought, tapping the amethyst with a finger and watching it glow. "Okay, so it's clearly responding to my Hidden Power move… let's see how well I can use this thing. Step back for a moment, my dear."

Loki took a long, deep breath, arching her arm back and whipping the staff forward in front of her. She began moving it in twirling, artistic patterns, appearing to trace a certain shape in the air before closing her eyes thoughtfully. When she was done, she looked back at Charade with a soft grin and a blushing wink, then turned back to her front and moving her staff-arm in a slashing motion. Before either of the two could blink, several bursts of purple light shone for a brief moment, bursting into a heart-shaped array of flames. The fires flickered for several moments, one by one slamming into the dirt beneath it until a tall flame pillar erupted from the spot, arching nearly twenty feet into the air before disappearing without a trace.

Loki briefly held an arm out in front of Charade, watching to make sure none of the sparks jumped and started any sort of forest fire. Once she was sure things were safe, she took both hands to the staff, putting it back in her storage chest and chuckling.

"Well, that was fun. Anyway, I guess if that wasn't obvious, my Hidden Type is Fire. I don't usually make the move look that artistic, but, I mean, since I wasn't in an actual fight or anything, I could get a little more…" She blushed softly at the cat and nodded. "…playful, with things. Oh, hey, you said your Hidden Type was Fairy, right?? I bet if you let out that power, it'd be a pretty magical sight! I'm not sure if my TMs would work on you but we could always try and figure out some way to do it! I'd love to see what you can do!"

INFO UNLOCK: Loki's Hidden Power Type

( @ask-meowscarada )

[ask-enchantingdelights]

Paige: "Don't worry, you're safe here Mx. Please come and follow me then."

[askshinyglaceon]

Charade: "Nyaha, what happens when it gets dark? Do the Lycanroc come out and go after your friends? I bet that's extra scary for an ice type! Or is it more sinister than that...?"

Nyahaha?

[askmoonwhispers]

Charada@Liana: “A witch! A real magician. I cannot even begin to imagine how powerful you must be! Tell me, Lady Luna, where did you learn your magic? Is it in your blood? From a book? Ooh, an ancient curse?”

Liana: Once upon a time, long before you and I were born there was an entire clan of ninetales in this area that practiced lunar magic after making a deal with The Moon herself. They're all dead now and no help to anyone, though. They just complain all the time about some war from when they were alive or something.

Even though it's inherently in my blood, I still had to train with my mentor for oh... 200 years? To get where I am now- I still have so much more to learn.

Oh, and just 'Liana' is fine. (.......Why are you so tall.)

Seagram: ...

@ask-meowscarada

[askbohemiancompany]

Charade@Gwen: “OH OH OH! I bet there’s a juicy story here~ You used to be in a relationship with Nigel, right? So, what happened? Who broke up with who? Did he do anything really shady? Tell me tell me tell me!!!”

There was a word for people who got really invested in someone's life, especially if it was someone's darkest moment. This mons was that kind of personality. Gwen found it off putting, to where all she could do was blink at first.

The fact that it was about Nigel was also an off putting point to. Granted she had long since moved on from any pain of that break up and seeing Nigel was hiding out in her place of employment before his trial...she figured why not. Indulge this cat.

"It was about as juicy as trying to beer chug orange juice. Well. The relationship was mutually on a downward slope for a while. It was basically both of us being intensely toxic with each other until we mutually agreed to break up."

While she had to be careful with how much she had to disclose, given that Nigel was locked in their building. There was one thing she was comfortable disclosing. The catalyst.

"There was one point that made me realize we needed to break up. It involved when I found out he was actually involved with pokemon trafficking and did so behind my back for months, and even made me serve as his muscle during a trade, which we almost got killed."

(Gwen is withholding info. Nigel might be able to fill in the gaps)

@ask-meowscarada

[ask-meowscarada]

(( Here’s my Star Sending gift, for @connectedspace! <3

I am SO sorry this took much longer than anticipated to get out to you—I did have a lot of fun working on it, though, and I hope Khaos enjoys her new presents!

Cameos are @ask-boreal’s Bolt and @ask-enchantingdelights’ Paige! I wanted to give a special thanks to you two: Addie for writing out the text for the letter, and Splotchi for drafting the layout of the third panel (the collage). And of course, thanks to all of @pokeask-star-sending for hosting the event!! ))

[book-of-legends]

Wow, that took me a while but here is the first batch, I'm still working on the second batch that was requested!

We have: Mage from @asklostlornlite requested by @/asksavel Harumi from @life-of-kalos requested by @/lustrous-dawn Charade from @ask-meowscarada requested by @/redolentgrove Kleo from @ask-a-bunch-of-mons requested by @/aro-crossing Emma & Bunker from @ask-scraft-a-new-one requested by Anonymous

Thank you! I hope you like and I'm excited to see content from your blogs!! Hopefully, everything is right, I tried to double-check everything was correct but I might have slipped up in places.

And for Bunker I couldnt find a proper ref or clear drawing so I did by best with what I had!!

[askdeoxys]

“IT’S NICE BECAUSE NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN SEE ME WHEN I’M THIS SMALL. IT’S LESS PRESSURE TO BE IN A SHAPE LIKE THIS. I HAVE TO DO LESS PERFORMING, YOU KNOW? ..ANYWAYS, CAN I HANG OUT HERE FOR A BIT?”

[ @ask-meowscarada ]

[oogaboogaspookyman]

@ask-enchantingdelights ANALOG HORROR MOMENT REAL

Under the cut not because it's BRICKSHIT scary, i don't find it even unnerving, but because i know some people aren't that strong like i am so yeah ^^’ enjoy if it's possible, whoever's giving this a look!

DON'T LOOK BACK

Oh right i forgot- @ask-meowscarada owns the purple Meowscarada character known as Charade, and ask-enchantingdelights owns the braxien character named Canela and the mystery Meowscarada i just spookified here

[ask-diane]

Charade@Diane: “This place is lovely! Is this where you live? You have to tell me what cool things you can do around here! …Ah, I’m sorry, maybe I shouldn’t assume you want to stay here. Do you?”

Its been months now Diane has realized... Months since she first arrived in Saroka... Months that she's wasted.. Well, not entirely wasted.. But, Months that she's wasted, when she could have been searching the rest of the unknown Imaros region; for her Mother, sister, and her past memories...

Diane finally realized that it was time to leave Saroka... It would hurt to say goodbye to Madam Selena, Eva, Starry, and especially Sammy... Even though they had just been hanging around, Diane has made quite a bounty of memories with them all... And will miss them all very much...

So she decided to head out... Saying her goodbyes first to Starry, who said she would miss Diane very much.. Eva, who had given Diane a drawing of the two together.. Or at least, that's what Diane believed it to be.. And finally Diane said her goodbyes to Madam Selena, which was for the some reason the hardest goodbye of them all.. Besides afterall having to say goodbye to Sammy... The one who had brought her to Sanctuary in the first place...

Though Diane desperately called for Sammy all around the Village.. Hoping to to hear his faint voice call back out to her... But alas, nothing... So, even though Diane wished not to say goodbye without saying anything to Sammy... She began to make her way to the other side of Saroka, to continue on her journey across Imaros...

All of a sudden, Diane heard someone call her name in the distance... She looked back, tears filling up her eyes... It was Sammy, running after her to say goodbye afterall...

"Diane!," Sammy called out, "Where are you going?.."

"Sammy... Didn't Miss Selena tell you?.. I'm leaving Saroka... I'm going to explore Imaros.."

"What?!," Sammy gasped...

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[@askadelcatty / @ask-meowscarada]

[redolentgrove]

Cascade observed Hope's arrival with her own respectful curiosity, making note of the Blaziken's anatomy and her statements. She wondered if maybe Hope had been from Kanto, given that the Dragonair line ssentially made up the only dragon Pokemon in that region. But she didn't make the assumption, instead nodding at the fire-type's statement.

"Yeah, I can't disagree with you there," she trilled, stretching her arms out and shifting her serpentine coils with a yawn. "Excuse me. Anyway… yeah, I'm basically living amongst centuries of history and creation, and it's hard to feel anything short of pure admiration for what's been built here in White Forest. I'm glad I get to be part of it."

Cascade regarded the arriving Meowscarada with a warm smile, her eyes perking slightly at the mention of Loki. Ah, I know who this is, she thought, the back half of her tail craning upward, coils shifting while she continued to get comfortable.

"You know about Loki? the Dragonair asked, offering her right hand for the feline to shake. "Then that must mean you're Charade. I'm telling you, there are days that girl won't stop talking about how pretty you are and how much she looks forward to seeing you again." She let out a little chuckle. "If I didn't know better, I'd say she's crushing on you harder than a Snorlax using a Body Slam, eh?"

Cascade shook her head, her face straightening back from the playfulness of her previous statement toward Charade. "Anyway… uh… yeah, you know, it's funny that both of you ask about what brought me here. I didn't exactly mean to make White Forest my home. It was a case of 'right region, wrong place,' so to speak."

"I actually wanted to live by Dragonspiral Tower and Icirrus City. As a dragon Pokemon, I was hoping to study it and learn more about the Tao trio of Unova, as well as Kyurem's origin formes. I got directions at a forest just outside of Castelia City, telling me to go west from Nimbasa City. Funnily enough, that place called itself Redolent Forest, just like this grove is named. Anyway… I got turned around in Nimbasa and somehow ended up taking the east exit by accident, and instead of ending up in Driftveil after the bridge, I arrived here. I asked some of the locals how much further I needed to go before I reached Driftveil, and they laughed at me saying I was clear on the other side of the region from that."

"I got a little embarrassed from that, but as I kept going around the forest, I kept liking what was here. The lake water was clear and beautiful, there were trees as far as I could see, and just when I didn't think I needed any more convincing… boom, here I was, in this giant grove of flowers." She gently plucked a blue iris from one of the outer beds near the lakeside, sure to be careful with its petals. "And then I met Loki."

"She and I immediately hit it off well enough, so I figured that I would go to Dragonspiral Tower and try to remember this place once I was finished. Then I started doubting my sense of direction because, well, if I couldn't remember east from west, how was I supposed to make it back here from Dragonspiral, let alone make it to that tower in the first place? Not to mention, I was getting kind of tired and frustrated from the journey up to that point, and I asked Loki if she had a place I could stay for a night and get my bearings."

"She did me one better and noted that one of the caves by the lakeside was vacant, and said she wanted me to stay for as long as I needed. I thanked her, unpacked some of my supplies, and got comfortable in there before I knew it. Then… I don't know. It started feeling right in there. Loki checked on me the next morning and offered me some tea and breakfast. She had made it all herself, and I couldn't just say no. It was wonderful… she was one of those neighbours you dream about having but never meet."

She looked over toward Hope, with a shrug of her shoulders. "Then before you know it, I'm sitting there, talking with Loki, listening to stories about her flowers, the local dogwood tree, and without any intentions, now I'm invested in this grove of White Forest. I start helping with some of the flower beds, making friends in the lake, feeling really cosy in that cave she offered… and then weeks start passing. Stupidly, I find myself asking Loki if I can make that cave my home, and shockingly, she said yes. And I've called this place home ever since."

She looked at Charade with a smile. "So, yeah, Loki's a neighbour, a friend… and unfortunately for her, she was also interested in me romantically. I felt bad letting her down and telling her that I'm straight. I was scared she might get mad and not let me stay here anymore, but she was incredibly accepting of that, and I could almost sense some sort of relief in her face. I haven't dared ask her why she seemed glad about it. Maybe she had someone else in mind; I don't know."

"It doesn't matter; she's become quite close with me regardless. I guess in a sense, we're like sisters. I help her, she helps me, and we tease each other at times and share secrets and history. She always seemed so trusting of me… it feels like the least I can do, is to trust her with some of my own more difficult-to-share things. I really admire her; she's the living embodiment of kindness and caring. It's an absolute enigma as to why and how she's single… I'm almost sensing some self-sabotage on that front. Like there's some reason she thinks she doesn't deserve to stay happy, despite how much she does to earn the kindness she's been shown."

Cascade blushed once she realised what she'd said at that point. "…but you didn't hear it from me." She looked at Charade's eyes. "I wonder…"

You get the sense that her staring at the Meowscarada's purple eyes has given her an idea about Loki. Perhaps by combining Loki's love of the colour purple and the Dragonair's subtle statements…

((Ask hints have been updated!))

(( @ask-the-royal-absol / @ask-meowscarada ))